subtracting

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Net exports, a measure of what the country exports minus what it imports, were a drag on growth in the first quarter, subtracting 1.3 percentage point as imports outpaced export.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

The NAV represents the fair value of the underlying assets, calculated by subtracting the fund’s liabilities from its total assets and dividing the remainder by the number of outstanding shares.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 25, 2026

At the same time, more types of companies are adding jobs rather than subtracting them.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2025

Trivariate Research’s Adam Parker is a fan of focusing on gross margins, which are calculated by taking a company’s revenue and subtracting cost of sales and dividing that by revenue.

From Barron's • Nov. 17, 2025

He really wanted to ask her what had happened, but even with all the adding and subtracting he knew that they weren’t friends.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman